Opinion

Letter: Follow money

Fannie Mae is a quasi-government agency backed by the taxpayers. Fannie Mae reported $58.7 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2013.

A big portion of this profit was made possible by wiring off losses that they created by buying improper loans from banks. They intend to use this profit to partially pay back money they owe taxpayers. In other words, instead of paying income tax, they are using tax credits to show a huge profit and paying us money that we would have got anyway from their income tax. I am not an accountant, so I must have something wrong here. Isn’t the taxpayer getting screwed again?